There is one on an abandoned island....maybe less expensive to move the library there.
Posted on 07/19/2018 7:12:52 AM PDT by simpson96
Illinois Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) is adamant that she does not want taxpayers to have to pay for anything related to the Obama Center Library, which is scheduled to be built in Jackson Park on Chicago's Southside.
"No tax money should be spent on the Obama Center," Ives recently told the DuPage Policy Journal.
The $38.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2019 that was recently passed by the Illinois General Assembly included what was initially reported as $172 million earmarked for road work around the area where the Obama Library is being built. A recent Washington Examiner article, however, claims the library is really going to cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $200 million.
"We have alternative priorities for our infrastructure dollars above the enhanced road work to service the Obama Center," Ives said. "And the fact that ongoing taxes could be collected to support this project is an obscene misuse of the intent of taxpayer money for museums and parks."
The location of the library is also causing a ruckus with Protect Our Parks recently filing a federal lawsuit alleging the transferring of city parkland to private entities, such as the Obama Foundation, violates state law.
"I agree with the lawsuit filed against this center as it is compelled speech to support a center wholly focused on the Obama's agenda and not as a place where historical documents will reside and have federal oversight," Ives said.
The library was originally supposed to be 100 percent privately funded and federally run, however, that's no longer the case.(snip)
"The state should not spend any money on this political project," Ives said. "The Obamas should find other property that does not involve a takeover of public parkland and they should privately finance the entire development and operation of his center."
(Excerpt) Read more at dupagepolicyjournal.com ...
The Obama Temple needs a gilded dome.
George $oreA$$ can pay for Obama’s Liebrary~!
“”The Obamas should find other property that does not involve a takeover of public parkland “”
The continent of Africa would be a great alternative.
The building should be a jail used to lock up the deep state.
Yes, one made out of concrete and closely-welded iron bars with an electric fence and razor wire...where it and the moose will spend the rest of their lives.
Ten bucks says Illinois will go ahead and pay for it forever.
Agree. It’s a waste of money for a library that’ll contain no real documents and only one book (written by someone else than Dorkbama, of course).
There is one on an abandoned island....maybe less expensive to move the library there.
Even Soros is fed up with Obama
How large an outhouse do you really need?
Then it will be a Republican campaign item forever.
The future is not going to be kind to Obama.
GOD bless Illinois Rep. Jeanne Ives. May He avenge her of slander and twisting of her words by GOV. RAUNER during the Illinois primaries and expand her territory.
I believe Obama’s Temple will never get built.
Its a trophy project proposed by Obama’s lackeys. There’s enough opposition, even among the Left, to delay it. Illinois and Chicago are effectively bankrupt. When the next economic downturn and stock-market crash occurs, everyone in IL’s focus will be simply trying to keep the lights on in the State.
What’s going to go in this library????
He sealed all his records
Is his island really abandoned ??
The Illinois legislature will see to its construction and payment.
Better to bounce a GLTD-III (Ground Laser Target Designator) off of.....
Some nice locations in downtown Mombasa...
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